A Research On The Juvenile Detention Centers

When a child unfortunately gets involved in the juvenile justice system for whatever reason, we need to make sure that rehabilitation is the main focus at getting that child back on track. We need to find out the root causes for the behaviors that brought him to this point and work diligently to try and change them. Incarceration with out treatment is merely storing bodies. If you don’t treat a problem it festers and becomes an even bigger problem. Delinquency must be handled so as to avoid the adult judicial system.

Placing a juvenile in a detention center early in the court process increases the risk that youths will be found to be delinquent and damage their prospects for future success. A majority of the youths that are placed in these facilities pose little or no threat to the public and essentially do not need to be there. This portion of the juvenile court process is detrimental to the future and mental aspects of a youth’s life. We desperately need to change the way that we handle the juvenile court system because we are only reinforcing the delinquent behavior that these youths have been exposed to. We need to focus on the rehabilitation and prevention efforts for these youths not the punishment aspect and until then (insert a better ending).

. A juvenile detention center is a secure prison for young adults under the age of 18, often form juvenile delinquents. Though which they get sentenced for the crime they committed for a period. Life after being detained in a juvenile corredional faculty can be a difficult transition for a child. Have you ever followed the wrong crowd and did something you regret? Well that is what juvenile detention is for, kids who committed an illegal act.

Rehabilitation for at risk teens has been an ongoing issue that runs deep in certain communities. When kids at young ages are exposed to stress and have to cope early on with dysfunction they are denied the opportunity to mature and conditioned to commit thinking errors that perpetuate a young offender into an adult offender. To find ways to break this cycle John Hubner accounts his time on the Giddings State School Capital Offenders Program and how a group of counselors are able to combine many strategies in rehabilitating young offenders who have committed serious crimes. Young people convicted of serious crimes are often transferred to adult prisons that institutionalize young people to prison life only increasing the likely hood of

Studies suggest that there is a divide between the government and public response to juvenile incarceration. Bullis & Yovas (2005) state that support is given to correctional facilities to house juvenile offenders as a form of punishment (as cited in Shannon, 2013, p. 17). Individuals who support this perspective are often more likely to support the construction of more prisons and stern penalties on crime based upon the presumptions that youthful offenders are aware of the consequences of their actions (Drakeford, 2002 as cited in Shannon, 2013, p. 17). On the other hand, opponents of this perspective believe that incarceration creates an opportunity to rehabilitate the offenders (Huffine, 2006 as cited in Shannon, 2013, p. 18). This perspective supports the purpose of juvenile detention centers as “preparatory in nature – that is, offering services focused on the development of skills needed to return successfully to mainstream

I advocate for a revision of the juvenile justice system that truly promotes social justice. The ideal detention facility I propose for delinquent juveniles more so resembles the practices and concepts the Missouri Division of Youth Services provides. This system does not bar children in cells. It does not force them to wear dehumanizing uniforms, they are provided with sufficient and well-trained mental health professionals. They are provided with anger management programs. It is devoted to “offer a demanding, carefully crafted, multilayered treatment experience, designed to challenge troubled teens and to help them

In order to properly address mandatory incarceration for chronic juvenile offender’s criminal activities, it is important to begin with psychological assessments and evaluations. Half of our youths have experienced some type of psychological trauma such as depression, PTSD, personality disorders, anxiety, anger issues, or dissociation, just to name a few (Moroz, K. 2009). In order to determine mandatory incarceration, all of these factors must be considered. I will agree with most of our society that is , if they are a danger to society and serious of the crime, they need to be put into detention, where they cannot cause harm but where they can received the right intervention program and mental health treatment for them, it’s the law. The juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate not punish young offenders. Punishment is not the answer in solving their delinquent behavioral patterns.

Roughly 10,000 to 100,000 teenagers are held in treatment programs based on the belief that adolescents must be broken before they can be fixed (Szalavitz 3). The juveniles have to wait to even have a chance for treatment. If they are put into prison, they do not get the guidance they need to change their lives around. The court should consider all of the factors before they go any further with sentencing. (Cutrer

Children delinquency prevention and reduction shouldn’t be as complicated as it is today. It is said that many juveniles are becoming formally involved in the juvenile justice system due to having some sort of learning disability and/or because of behavior and discipline problems with his/her school also known as the school to prison pipeline. Kids with learning disabilities were detained more frequently and frequently came across detention centers compared to kids that don’t have disabilities. When an educator gives up on a child, the child will tend to have a negative self-perception and have a low frustration tolerance that’ll unfortunately be a factor to his/her future delinquent actions. Rejection of peers, low self-worth, dropping out

I found after reading this article to be very interesting, which focuses on how juvenile justice facilities are slowly starting to change their approach in detaining adolescents in detention centers. This change in philosophy can be attribute it to Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI), which advocates for keeping adolescents out of a traumatic environments, such as detention facilities. There have been several studies conducted, which revealed unreasonably high levels of stress among adolescents in detention centers, mostly due to traumatic experiences prior to being detained. "Kids who get into trouble, including committing crime and violence, are usually acting out of their own traumatic childhoods" (Finkel, 2015, para. 18). Despite,

Juvenile Detention Centers were created with the intention of rehabilitation. However, over time rehabilitation has been forgotten. Education is part of rehabilitation. In

Juveniles should never be put into adult facilities, due to the lack of proper care for the youth in these buildings. For example, most adult facilities do not provide proper education. Some don’t even provide any at all for the juveniles. “A 2005 survey of adult facilities found that 40 percent of the jails and prisons had no educational services” (Curley). Therefore, the educational lag could impact their future career options, and could make them indigent for the rest of their life. “Many juveniles are placed in isolation, which can severely exacerbate or even cause mental disorders that have the potential to affect them for the rest of their lives.”(Curley). To prevent mental disorders, adolescents should be placed in juvenile facilities,

on June 12, 1959 shortly after 7:00 p.m., he was taken into custody. At about 2:30 a.m. on June 13, he was charged with first degree murder under the Juvenile Detention Act since he was only 14. After the conviction, he spent four months in the shadows until his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Paroled in 1969, Steven disappeared in a southern Ontario city. ​

The prison life should not be the life that a child should be stuck in, but rather be rehabilitated through various programs depending on the crime and the age of the juvenile. Children who grow up in the prison, or jail systems, are far too often released a better criminal than when they went in, often referred to as prisonization. They are taught how to better conceal drugs and weapons, cover up crimes, commit offenses amongst thousands of other heinous crimes. “This process not only labels youth as gang members but instills in them identities and worldviews that rationalize their own incarceration, extending the prison's ability to categorize people as carceral subjects far beyond the penitentiary gates (Lopez). Juveniles can often be imprisoned

The entire factor that can lead up to juveniles making the wrong choices in society of such behavior, like low self –esteem, hanging with negative people, bad choices and having a dysfunctional family can all lead to juvenile destruction. There are program out there to help trouble juveniles change not only their ways, but their ways of thinking as well. These programs are here to help them make the right choices and improved their life from the wrong type of decision making for the future. I will discuss two different programs in the state of California that is committed to helping reduce juvenile delinquent and the program that they are facing. The two programs that I will take under my wings and compare and give my opinion are Center on